About

The Arts & Culture Program is an initiative of Fairmount Park Conservancy, made possible with support from ArtPlace America. Using creative placemaking strategies, we seek to enrich parks and their communities, and to sustain a vibrant civic realm in Philadelphia.

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Step 1

Define a geographic community around a public park or series of parks

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Step 2

Articulate a change that people living or working in that community would like to see

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Step 3

Implement an arts-based intervention that seeks to achieve that change

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Step 4

Develop a way to know whether that change occurred

Fairmount Park Conservancy was honored to be selected for the Community Development Investments (CDI) program of ArtPlace America. One of six not-for-profits across the country, the Conservancy was given the opportunity to invest in arts and culture as part of its mission to make the Fairmount Park System a national model of urban revitalization, sustainability and civic engagement.

Join us as we continue to explore how the work of artists and cultural organizations can enrich our neighborhood parks and make our signature watershed parks hum with vitality, interpretation and community connection.

Partners

ArtPlace America

ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) is a ten-year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development in order to help strengthen the social,physical, and economic fabric of communities.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation advances the prosperity of our city and the progress of her people through intentional and sustained stewardship of public land and waterways as well as through safe, stimulating recreation, environmental and cultural centers. We help Philadelphia and its citizens grow by connecting people to the natural world, to each other, and to fun, physical and social opportunities.